HB2960: Hotel or restaurant services; failure to pay charges, penalty.

Chief Patron

Del. Rob Bell (R-58)

Rob Bell (R-58)
Charlottesville, VA
Served: 2002–

Progress

	Introduced
	Passed Committee
	Passed House
	Passed Senate
	Signed by Governor
	Became Law

Status

Bill is Dead

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Summary

Hotel or restaurant services, etc.; larceny; penalty.  Provides that failure to pay charges at a hotel, motel, campground, boardinghouse, restaurant, eating house, or amusement park for food, entertainment or accommodation is larceny, making the offense subject to the provision that a third larceny conviction, regardless of the amount, is a Class 6 felony. If the value of the service received is $200 or less, the penalty will remain a Class 1 misdemeanor; if it is $200 or more, the offense will be grand larceny, punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not less than one nor more than 20 years or, in the discretion of the jury or of court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jail not exceeding 12 months or a fine not more than $2,500, either or both.